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Pearl Jam played the first of it “Home Shows” Wednesday August 8, 2018 at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. 207295
Music

Pearl Jam at 30: The enduring power of Seattle music’s cool uncles

At the 30th anniversary of Pearl Jam's first show at an old South Lake Union club, Seattle Times music writer Michael Rietmulder examines the secrets to the band's longevity and how the Seattle mavericks stack up against their rock heroes.

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The Meany Center for the Performing Arts will stream an excerpt from “S,” a performance from the Brisbane-based company Circa, on its digital stage, Meany On Screen from Oct. 16 to Oct. 23.
Fall Arts Guide 2020

UPDATING: Fall 2020 arts events in the Seattle area

A movie poster for the first “Twilight” film adaptation. (Summit Entertainment)
Books

‘Twilight’ put Forks, Washington, on the map. Fifteen years later, the saga’s legacy endures  VIEW

“Possession” by A.S. Byatt
Books

Here are 6 mystery recommendations for fall, including ‘The Paris Librarian’ | The Plot Thickens

A poster for Keep Music Live Washington fundraising campaign to aid small independent music venues in the state is seen at the closed Tractor Tavern, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood during the pandemic. 215362
Music

$10 million fundraising campaign aims to save Washington music venues from closing

Books

“This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger

Read Moira’s Book Club’s online discussion of William Kent Krueger’s ‘This Tender Land’

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Employee Pat Patton at Admiral Theatre, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 in West Seattle, as the moviehouse gets ready to reopen Friday. 215318

Here’s a list of Seattle-area movie theaters that have reopened

Music & Nightlife

Pearl Jam played the first of it “Home Shows” Wednesday August 8, 2018 at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. 207295

Pearl Jam at 30: The enduring power of Seattle music’s cool uncles

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Television

Trump posts ‘60 Minutes’ interview after telling Stahl: ‘That’s no way to talk’

President Donald Trump made good Thursday on a threat to post unfiltered footage from a “60 Minutes” interview he taped earlier this week with anchor Lesley Stahl — an interview that Trump abruptly cut short, complaining that Stahl was “negative” and biased. In posting the 38-minute clip on Facebook, Trump urged viewers to “look at...

Theater

Nine Seattle arts organizations are receiving gifts totaling more than $9 million to honor the lives and legacies of late art enthusiasts Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang of Medina.

New Seattle foundation gives $9 million to arts organizations — mostly for new work

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Nine Seattle arts organizations are receiving gifts totaling more than $9 million to honor the lives and legacies of late art enthusiasts Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang of Medina.

New Seattle foundation gives $9 million to arts organizations — mostly for new work

Visual Arts

Jacob Lawrence painting, missing for decades, is found by Met visitor

Pacific NW Magazine

The Washington Legislature’s Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Highways, Streets and Bridges in 1959: Seated next to Julia Butler Hansen is her vice-chairman, Sen. Nat Washington. Standing, from left: Rep. Dewey Donohue, Rep. Ken Rosenberg, Rep. Daniel J. Evans (a future three-term governor), Sen. Louis Hofmeister, Rep. Lincoln Shropshire, Rep. Horace Bozarth, Sen. Bob Bailey, Sen. Al Henry and Rep. Joe Beierlein. (Washington State Archives)

Over an influential half-century in politics, Julia Butler Hansen powered through one glass ceiling after another

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Nine Seattle arts organizations are receiving gifts totaling more than $9 million to honor the lives and legacies of late art enthusiasts Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang of Medina.

New Seattle foundation gives $9 million to arts organizations — mostly for new work